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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Simple removal of a testicle

CPT 54520the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of one testicle through the scrotum or groin, with or without placing a replacement implant.

Hospitals typically charge $1,879 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 779 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,388. Most fall between $659 and $6,016 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
779
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 779 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$504$751$1,879$4,856$10,614

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($504 vs $10,614).

How the prices are spread

$382 – $549: 72 hospitals$382$549 – $790: 104 hospitals$790 – $1,136: 101 hospitals$790$1,136 – $1,634: 56 hospitals$1,634 – $2,349: 58 hospitals$1,634$2,349 – $3,379: 49 hospitals$3,379 – $4,859: 107 hospitals$3,379$4,859 – $6,987: 64 hospitals$6,987 – $10,048: 49 hospitals$6,987$10,048 – $14,451: 43 hospitals$10,048median $1,879price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (703 of 779 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$382$54972
$549$790104
$790$1,136101
$1,136$1,63456
$1,634$2,34958
$2,349$3,37949
$3,379$4,859107
$4,859$6,98764
$6,987$10,04849
$10,048$14,45143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,879
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.52×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,879.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $547 across 10 hospitalsME$547Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,753 across 21 hospitalsWA$1,753Idaho: median $2,990 across 11 hospitalsID$2,990Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,708 across 34 hospitalsMN$1,708Illinois: median $1,437 across 32 hospitalsIL$1,437Wisconsin: median $1,879 across 37 hospitalsWI$1,879Michigan: median $1,111 across 38 hospitalsMI$1,111New York: median $1,541 across 44 hospitalsNY$1,541Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $789 across 22 hospitalsOR$789Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $818 across 45 hospitalsIA$818Indiana: median $720 across 22 hospitalsIN$720Ohio: median $1,516 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,516Pennsylvania: median $5,356 across 22 hospitalsPA$5,356New Jersey: median $4,602 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,602Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,147 across 48 hospitalsCA$7,147Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $774 across 14 hospitalsNE$774Missouri: median $3,087 across 25 hospitalsMO$3,087Kentucky: median $716 across 12 hospitalsKY$716West Virginia: median $879 across 19 hospitalsWV$879Virginia: median $3,571 across 10 hospitalsVA$3,571Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $765 across 17 hospitalsKS$765Arkansas: median $2,069 across 14 hospitalsAR$2,069Tennessee: median $2,314 across 14 hospitalsTN$2,314North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $544 across 15 hospitalsOK$544Louisiana: median $2,873 across 12 hospitalsLA$2,873Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,471 across 16 hospitalsAL$3,471Georgia: median $6,653 across 13 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,403 across 38 hospitalsTX$4,403Florida: median $3,462 across 10 hospitalsFL$3,462
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,879. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA48$7,147+280%$832 – $11,262
Georgia GA13$6,653+254%$1,857 – $6,653
Pennsylvania PA22$5,356+185%$3,467 – $12,294
New Jersey NJ33$4,602+145%$3,818 – $5,741
Texas TX38$4,403+134%$3,368 – $7,633
Virginia VA10$3,571+90%$1,964 – $8,642
Alabama AL16$3,471+85%$944 – $10,318
Florida FL10$3,462+84%$1,516 – $6,871
Missouri MO25$3,087+64%$549 – $16,112
Idaho ID11$2,990+59%$720 – $8,773
Louisiana LA12$2,873+53%$1,831 – $5,022
Tennessee TN14$2,314+23%$325 – $5,243
Arkansas AR14$2,069+10%$802 – $4,058
Wisconsin WI37$1,8790%$1,277 – $3,146
Washington WA21$1,753−7%$661 – $5,616
Minnesota MN34$1,708−9%$706 – $2,378
New York NY44$1,541−18%$640 – $4,176
Ohio OH23$1,516−19%$661 – $8,961
Illinois IL32$1,437−24%$751 – $9,052
Michigan MI38$1,111−41%$506 – $4,847
West Virginia WV19$879−53%$346 – $6,935
Iowa IA45$818−56%$720 – $1,030
Oregon OR22$789−58%$605 – $1,174
Nebraska NE14$774−59%$698 – $1,565
Kansas KS17$765−59%$505 – $2,037
Indiana IN22$720−62%$492 – $10,963
Kentucky KY12$716−62%$492 – $3,532
Maine ME10$547−71%$352 – $830
Oklahoma OK15$544−71%$544 – $6,162
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,879.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care543$3,462$720 – $7,638
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access220$921$595 – $2,004
Ownership
For-profit83$4,861$920 – $10,171
Government174$1,049$628 – $4,326
Non-profit521$1,819$661 – $5,616
System affiliation
Part of a system560$2,156$698 – $6,653
Independent219$1,110$623 – $4,561

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,202
Median cash price$1,879
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

365 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $847 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,444; most fall between $533 and $4,403.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 365 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$405$553$847$3,471$7,530

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($405 vs $7,530).

Of the 408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 365 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

779 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 870 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted779
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code870

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Orchiectomy Simple Scrotal/Inguinal Approach.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Simple removal of a testicle (CPT 54520) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54520-simple-removal-of-a-testicle